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Terrace SAR Training @ Yellowhead YXT
May 8, 2019 Yellowhead Helicopters Terrace Base
Base manager Jeff Patmore spent a few hours with Terrace Search and Rescue members training for class D external load procedures. The video below was created by Black Press Newspaper.
“We want to make sure we’re ready for all the different projects… we’re seeing more workers working in the field, it’s only a matter of time that they are going to be rescued and we’re doing everything we can to make sure we prepare for that.”
Dave Jephson
Terrace Search & Rescue
You can read the full article interview with Jeff and SAR VP Dave Jephson in the May 16 edition of the Terrace Standard; a digital version is located here.
BC Ministry of Forest, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development have been utilizing helicopters to capture members of regional wolf packs.